Subversion compiled with gnome-wallet support, but not kwallet support

[Scott Kitterman]

Binary package hint: subversion

svn 1.6 now supports gnome-wallet and kwallet. The Ubuntu package only has gnome-wallet support compiled in.

Svn will ask for a gnome-wallet password even when the package isn't installed:

$ svn ci -m "Update version and description in setup.py"
Sending trunk/setup.py
Password for 'default' GNOME keyring:

Given that the documentation http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ described the addition of wallet support as a fix for a security deficiency, I think the lack of kwallet support is a security issue.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 31 01:13:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: subversion 1.6.5dfsg-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: subversion
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2614): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (<unknown>:3073): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_origin: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
 (<unknown>:3073): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x4e00003 unexpectedly destroyed
 (<unknown>:19734): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_origin: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package subversion - 1.6.6dfsg-2ubuntu1

---------------
subversion (1.6.6dfsg-2ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #483953).
    Includes enabling kwallet support (LP: #481792, #466078).
    Remaining changes:
    - Create pot file on build.
    - Build a python-subversion-dbg package.
    - (Build-)depend on default-jre-headless/-jdk.
    - Do not apply java-build patch.
    - debian/rules: Manually create the doxygen output directory, otherwise
      we get weird build failures when running parallel builds.
    - Disable the serf backend because serf is in universe.
  * Amend the XS-Python-Version line to ">= 2.4" rather than explicit
    versions (only building for 2.6 in Lucid since that is the onl Python in
    Lucid).

subversion (1.6.6dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update svn-bisect (Closes: #535234), fix bugs, add features,
    and write a manpage. Also mention it in the subversion-tools
    Description. (Closes: #535187)
  * Move from db4.7 to db4.8, tracking apr-util. (Closes: #557457)
  * Move the example XSL and CSS files for mod_dav_svn to
    /usr/share/doc/libapache2-svn/examples/. (Closes: #553535)
  * patches/ruby-test-info: New patch to maybe address a FTBFS. (#545372)
    Thanks Michael Diers, Joe Swatosh and Stefan Sperling. I expect that
    this is not the only fix needed, but we shall see.
  * patches/16x-po: New patch: a couple translation updates from 1.6.7.
  * libsvn-java: depend on ${shlibs:Depends}, thanks Lintian.
  * python-subversion: Update an outdated Lintian override.
  * libsvn1: Add a handful of Lintian overrides.

subversion (1.6.6dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Reintroduce svn_load_dirs.pl: Dolby has agreed to an explicit free
      software license. Thanks Blair Zajac for following up on this.
    - patches/ruby-test-core: New patch from upstream to fix a new failure
      in the ruby testsuite.
  * Standards-Version 3.8.3 (no changes).
  * control: Some housecleaning: remove some Conflicts/Replaces/Provides
    that haven't been needed since etch.
  * patches/build-fixes: add a small fix for parallel builds.
    (Closes: #531369, #543110)
  * patches/svn2cl-upstream: New patch to fix the XSL to better comply
    with XML standards. (Closes: #546990)
  * Enable kwallet support. (Closes: #539564)
    - patches/kwallet-wid: New patch based very loosely on upstream work, to
      let the kwallet library know your terminal's Window ID, if available.
    - patches/apr-abi, patches/rpath: Fix the LINK_CXX target, now that
      we're finally using it.
  * Set dependency_libs='' in all .la files (Closes: #544877), as per:
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00783.html
 -- Max Bowsher <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:48:13 +0000

[Dennis Schridde (devurandom)]

When will this reach Ubuntu 9.10 / Karmic?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

It won't. I tried this during Karmic development and it doesn't work with the version we have in Karmic.